Not So Critical Update

Today we talk about Nessie, a project that Amazon abandoned in 2019 that automatically adjusted prices. Read more here: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23901840/amazon-project-nessie-algorithm-antitrust-ftc-complaint

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Today we talk about the Supreme Court in the US taking a case on free speech in social media. Read more here: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/09/29/Supreme-Court-social-media-First-Amendment/8401696010401/

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Today we talk about:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/ai-is-getting-better-at-hurricane-forecasting/

https://twitter.com/literallydenis/status/1708283962399846459/photo/2

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/technology/ai-images-social-media-sharing.html

https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes

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Meta recently paid $181M to get out of the 20-year lease of a London building that they hadn't even furnished yet. We discuss if this is a win for remote working.

Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/27/meta_coughs_181m_to_exit/

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Today we talk about eyeo's win against Axel Springer, who was arguing that HTML is subject to copyright and therefore can't be modified by ad blockers. The idiot.

Check out the article from Eyeo here: https://resources.eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-appeal

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Mike makes Peter very angry about the iPhone 15's "right to repair" - and because Peter's writing this, we can also say that Mike is completely wrong about everything.

Check out the original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRKQ0OjQeE

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Today we talk about Twitter. Or X. Or whatever it's called. Surely they can't keep this "X" thing up?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-26/eu-faults-musk-s-x-in-fight-against-russia-s-war-of-ideas

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/26/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-x-must-comply-with-fake-news-laws

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/

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All the AI news you probably missed from the week.

Covering:

https://gptexcel.uk/

https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66940771

https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-4-vision/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892781/openai-chatgpt-live-web-results-browse-with-bing

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology/

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Elon Musk has been up to his usual nonsense, something about a paywall for Twitter. He really is the Trump of the corporate world. This article from CNBC on his shenanigans is worth a read though: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html

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We talk about whether plastic in our wallets should actually be used, and end up actually agreeing for once!

Inspired by this puff piece - ZDNet is reporting that OpenWallet has recently received backing from Microsoft - and aims to replace all cards in our wallets by 2030.

Read more here: https://www.zdnet.com/finance/its-2030-and-digital-wallets-have-replaced-every-card-in-our-purses-and-pockets/

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